Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thinking about politics is easy for people whose daily survival is never seriously threatened. When I feasted on turkey last Thursday, it slipped my mind that the people of El Salvador have a lot less to be thankful for than they should...
...reality, it has been less Ciavaglia's influence than a simple position switch that has sparked Vukonich's scoring surge. After sitting out the Army game for disciplinary reasons, Vukonich moved from his second-line spot at wing back to third-line center. And when Ted Donato was injured the following night, Vukonich moved into a similar spot on Harvard's power play. Since the shakeup, he has scored all five of his goals...
Peterson and Morita have a point. When Australian Rupert Murdoch was taking substantial control of major American media properties (including Metromedia Inc. and 20th Century Fox), little was written about the dangers of media manipulation from Down Under. Reportage focused less on the fact that the predator was Australian (Murdoch has since acquired American citizenship) than that he was Murdoch. Nor did warnings sound when Canada's Thomson Newspapers acquired more than 100 papers...
Reporting on Japanese investment has been peculiar for several reasons. One is that Japanese corporations are less open to American governance than American companies are to Japanese control. Also, Japan has been less than effusive in welcoming U.S. goods. Then too, no U.S. bureaucracy compares with Japan's Ministry for International Trade and Industry, an entity whose principal mission, some commentators believe, is to plot Japan's economic domination of the world...
...analyses that evoke some of the worse aspects of the yellow- peril era. That is unfortunate. For, to the extent that coverage of Japanese business is reduced to the 1989 equivalent of "Japanese plan invasion of industrial fields," journalism will be that much more diminished and readers that much less informed...